Thucydides
Thucydides
Thucydideswas an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the 5th century BC war between Sparta and Athens to the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of "scientific history" because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionHistorian
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Hope is an expensive commodity. It makes better sense to be prepared.
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Self-control is the chief element in self-respect and self-respect is the chief element in courage.
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The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.
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The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
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The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.
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The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.
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History is Philosophy teaching by example.
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Full of hopes beyond their power though not beyond their ambition.
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Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degredation to make no effort to overcome.